“Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.”

English novelist

Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. He has 129 quotes on the site. He is also the recipient of the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His reputation rests on fiction that reached a wide readership and brought him several major literary honors.